Word Spirit Dao

On his first day transmigrating as a copyist servant at Canglan Sect, Lin Yan discovers he has strange eyes—he can see the emotions of characters. The "Azure Cloud Sword Manual," fought over by the entire sect, has shaky, guilt-ridden strokes; the dust-covered remnant scroll has every character tempered with killing intent. Characters fear, hurt, beg, and whisper in his ear. He sees through fake techniques at a glance, publicly exposes a swapped counterfeit book, and rises from a trampled menial to a "prized disciple" personally claimed by Pavilion Master Pei Xuanzhang. But the hand that took him as disciple, three hundred years ago, had just "written to death" a man with a brush. Word Immortal Li Guanlan, the last heir of the Word Immortal lineage, hid the truth in an old book no one would read—the "Guanlan Record." That book waited three hundred years for someone who could see characters. The night it found Lin Yan, the characters on its pages grinned at him. "One who sees characters will also be seen by them. Child, you cannot escape." The blank paper claims its master, the word spirits awaken, and the pieces of the massacre case fall into place. Lin Yan finally understands: his eyes are not a gift, but a bloodline; on the day he transmigrated, in the manuscript he proofread in his past life, someone had circled a line in red ink—"The one who sees characters will come to you." And that massacre three hundred years ago was waiting for the day these eyes opened. — Description from novelcodex.org